Following too closely
No room left to react. The most common error, and the easiest to fix.
Road safety education · Lebanon
Human error causes most crashes. Skill is what prevents them.
We teach defensive and anticipative driving to young drivers across Lebanon and the region. Crashes are never fully avoidable – but the distance between a near miss and a fatality is usually training.
Safety is attitude
How far you travel before you stop
Move the speed. The grey bar is the distance covered while you are still reacting – before the brakes are touched at all.
- Reaction distance
- 20.8 m
- Braking distance
- 14.0 m
- Total stopping distance
- 34.8 m
Assumes a 1.5-second reaction, sound tyres and level ground. Double your speed and your stopping distance roughly triples – this is the single fact our courses are built around.
- 1993
- Teaching road safety in Lebanon since
- 8
- Training programmes, from first licence to circuit
- 3
- Languages – Arabic, English, French
- 2015
- Registered as a Lebanese non-profit
The risk
Four errors cause most of what we see
None of these is a lack of talent. Every one of them is a habit, and habits can be trained out.
Speed for the conditions
Not the posted limit. The speed the road, weather and traffic actually allow.
Distraction
Eyes off the road for two seconds at 100 km/h is fifty-five metres driven blind.
Not scanning far enough ahead
Reacting to what is in front of you instead of anticipating what is coming.
Programmes
Training built for the roads you actually drive
Every course pairs classroom theory with time behind the wheel. Nothing is taught that cannot be practised the same day.
Defensive driving basics
Hazard perception, safe following distances, emergency braking and skid recovery. Built for drivers in their first three years on the road, and the course most people should start with.
Introduction to road safety
A classroom session delivered at your site for schools, universities, fleets and corporate teams. No vehicle needed.
Karting basics
First time on a circuit. Racing line, throttle and brake control, and flag discipline in a controlled environment.
Our story
Started by a champion who spent his life telling people to slow down
Adel Metni was a Lebanese and Arab rally champion, twice Lebanese Hill Climb champion, and founder of the first professional racing team in the country. From 1996 he was also among the first people in Lebanon to campaign publicly for road safety, teaching hundreds of students across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Dubai.
He died in 2008, at forty-six. The foundation was registered in 2015 to carry the work on under his name.
Combining racing skill with defensive behaviour is what makes the lesson stick.
Supporters
Who backs this work
Courses are heavily subsidised so that cost is never the reason a young driver goes untrained. That is only possible because of these partners.
Get involved
A subsidised place costs less than a tank of fuel
Every donation puts a young driver through a full day of training. Companies can sponsor a cohort as a CSR programme; municipalities can host a session for their community.